With the outer city being breached, the people in Dali City began to panic, and the city gathered 3,000 households within a radius of 100 miles, as well as 4,000 Sui soldiers and thousands of craftsmen, a total of nearly 30,000 people, nearly 10,000 fù and old people began to retreat to the mountain dòng on the rock wall in a planned way, although the mountain dòng on the rock wall has not yet been completed, but it can barely accommodate nearly 10,000 people.

Yang Yuanqing rode a horse to Liu Jian's house, his home is not far from Yang Sien's house, it is a small house covering an area of one acre, Liu Jian has no children, his parents also died early, there are only two young Turkic NVs in the family, and he has lived for five years, which is his wife.

In the courtyard, two Turkic NVs heard that their husbands had died in battle, and they were hugging their heads and crying, and Yang Sien's wife Mrs. Fang was comforting them in a low voice, Yang Yuanqing sighed, he didn't know what to say He ordered a soldier next to him, "Send them to Yandòng, and then tell them that they don't have to worry about their lives in the future, I will mention them to make arrangements." ”

He said to his wife again: "Sister-in-law, you should also go to Yan Dòng!" It's safer over there. ”

Mrs. Fang nodded silently, "Thank you, General!" ”

Yang Yuanqing turned the horse's head, and happened to meet his little maid Green Tea running over, Green Tea saw him, couldn't help but be surprised and happy, and ran up and shouted: "Childe, what should I do?" ”

"You follow Mrs. Fang and go to Yan Dòng together!"

He rode towards the city wall, and laughed loudly, "Don't worry, they won't be able to attack the city." ”

The drawbridge fell with a bang, and the soldiers of Xue Yantuo pushed the hinge and opened the heavy outer city with a creak, and tens of thousands of troops outside the city rushed out, and they would face the attack of the inner city.

This is the strongest and most difficult part of the city of Dali, with two walls inside and outside... Not connected to each other, the inner city is only a little lower than the outer city, the city is stronger, the inner and outer city walls are a hundred steps apart, this is also a deliberate design for the defense of the grassland people, most of the bows and arrows on the grassland are only fifty or sixty steps away, while the Sui army's crossbow arrows have a hundred paces of killing distance.

At this time, in Changsili... The ninety-foot-wide space between the two cities was crowded with tens of thousands of Xue Yantuo soldiers, who held their shields high and rained down dense arrows towards the head of the inner city, so that the Sui army did not dare to head up.

But the three thousand Sui troops left the battlements, half-squatted on the city wall, and hit the opposite city wall with crossbow arrows, and the enemy troops on the opposite city wall were killed and wounded, and they withdrew from the outer city that had no effect, Yang Yuanqing stood on a lookout tower... Coldly staring at the more than 10,000 Xue Yantuo troops below, these robbers on the grassland, don't you know that their death is just around the corner?

He waited patiently, waiting for Xue Yantuo's army to cut himself off.

"General, the beacon fire is lit!" A soldier shouted in surprise as he pointed to the mountain behind him.

Yang Yuanqing glanced back, and a pillar of beacon smoke lit up in the back mountain... This was the army of Yujura, which was less than twenty miles away from Dali City, and his gaze turned back to the outer city. )

After a while, Yang Sien ran up and shouted: "General, the beacon fire in the back mountain has been ignited, can you do it?" ”

"Wait a little longer!"

Yang Yuanqing is still waiting patiently, and it has not yet reached the best moment.

When Shalu saw with his own eyes that there was an inner city as high as the outer wall, he felt hopeless... The Khan himself told him... The inner city was not repaired, which is one of the reasons why they decided to attack the city of Dali.

"What to do? Still fighting? A captain asked in a low voice beside him.

"Hit!"

Shalu Hunter glanced back, and the siege engine that was rumbling up, this huge guy... The wooden frame is about two zhang high, four zhang long, of which the collision wood is three zhang long, it is hung on the wooden frame with dozens of leather cables, the front end of the collision head is equipped with pig iron, there is a force of 10,000 catties in a collision, and it is pushed forward slowly by 800 Xue Yantuo soldiers.

"Order the soldiers to suppress the Sui army with bows and arrows!"

Shalu hunted his horse and ran into the city.

The Sui army in the inner city was completely suppressed by the bows and arrows of Xue Yantuo's army, and the arrows were like rain in the sky, and the bows and arrows of more than 10,000 enemy troops were enough to give the Sui army no chance.

Shalu Hunt stared at the inner city, though it was strong, when it might not be able to hold back its own pig iron.

The siege rambling envoy entered the outer city, and the huge body occupied most of the city, and at this moment, a Xue Yantuo patrol came to report, "Report to Ye Hu, fifteen miles away, the Sui cavalry was found, there are more than 20,000 people, and they are killing us!" ”

Sha Lu Hunt was taken aback, the reinforcements of the Sui army arrived, he turned his horse's head and ran out, suddenly, there was a shout from his subordinates behind him, Sha Lu Hunt turned around, only to see the head of the inner city, the rockets flying down in the sky, and the ground was already on fire.

The soldiers of Xue Yantuo in the open space were húnluàn, you pushed me, rushed to run first, desperately fled outside the city, but the battering ram blocking the outer city made it extremely difficult to escape.

At the feet of the enemy, the fire burned bigger and bigger, spread rapidly, barrels of fire oil were constantly thrown from the city, increasing the fire, in an instant, the open space four miles long and a hundred steps wide became a sea of fire, everywhere there were fire people running, people who fell were struggling in the fire, the terrible screams resounded throughout the city, the outer city of Dali became a purgatory on earth, many soldiers of the Sui army could not bear to look at it anymore, and turned their heads one after another.

At this time, the loud horn sounded outside the city, and the 25,000 Sui cavalry killed, the war knives were sharp, the horses were like dragons, overwhelming, thousands of horses galloping, and the monstrous murderous aura swept together, killing everything, and instantly defeated the thousands of Xue Yantuo troops who were facing the battle.

The three days of siege had exhausted the Xue Yantuo army, the fire of hell had burned their morale, they were terrified and fled, Shalu had been burned to death in the city, no one came to restrain them, Xue Yantuo's army was wailing, fear enveloped them.

In the vast snow, tens of thousands of Xue Yantuo's troops scattered and fled to the north bank of the Yellow River, trying to flee back to their homes, but no one could have imagined that because of their Khan's stupidity, their homes were also suffering from tragic catastrophes.

The 80,000 cavalry of the deed were killed and stationed in the core tribe of Xue Yantuo on the edge of a forest, which is the place where the Khan of Xue Yantuo is located, tens of thousands of dome tents stretch for more than ten miles, and almost all the young and strong men have gone to Dali City to fight, and there are only more than 100,000 fù and old people left in the camp, and there are thousands of Khan guards.

When 80,000 horsemen made the earth shake... When the overwhelming cavalry appeared several miles away, the camp of Xue Yantuo was terrified, the screams of the NV people and the cries of the children resounded throughout the camp, the brave NV people did not care about their family property, picked up their children and ran away on horseback, while the weak NV people hid in the tent and cried with their arms in their arms, and the old people who were unable to run were crying with their heads up to the sky, kneeling in the snow and waiting for death to come.

In a steppe tribe without the support of strong men... It means being slaughtered and looted, which is the unchanging wolf law of the grassland since ancient times.

The Chee cavalry rushed into Xue Yantuo's camp like a storm, killing the old man with a knife, looting NV people and children, robbing cattle, sheep and family property, Qi Lie waved his spear and shouted, "Don't worry about the property, go and kill Xue Yantuo's khan first!" ”

Cheret led 20,000 cavalry... Killing the king tent of Xue Yantuo a few miles away, his eyes were fixed on the golden wolf-headed banner fluttering above the king's tent.

In the king's tent, Yi Lost Bowl is tormented by remorse, he has just received news from the falcon that the city of Dali is extremely strong, and their army will not be able to attack it for a long time... With heavy casualties, this battle report shocked Yi Lost Bowl.

He was an extremely paranoid person, he would not turn back if he did not encounter a major setback, he had thought that razing the city of Dali at the cost of one or two thousand men would boost the morale of his army, defeat the Sui Dynasty army, increase his prestige in the steppe, and make the other Tiele people submit to him... But he didn't expect... Things weren't as simple as he thought.

When he heard that the siege had already killed 20,000 concubines, Yi lost the bowl and finally began to regret it, and he began to realize that he had made a big mistake, and he had not taken Dali City after killing 20,000 people... So how many people would he have to die to take this small border city?

If he continues to fight like this, does he still have an army and a powerful contract to confront him? He remembered what his eldest son Yinan said to him again, and his heart began to ache with remorse, he was now difficult to ride a tiger, and he would either increase his troops, but the Xue Yantuo tribe in the east was controlled by his eldest son Yinan, and he might not be willing to increase his troops, or withdraw the army, but he was unwilling, and killed more than 20,000 people in the battle, which was difficult for him to accept anyway.

At this moment, the big tent suddenly shook violently, and there was a thunderous sound in the distance, and Yi lost the bowl and reacted at once, at this time, the cavalry of the brigade came, and he immediately panicked, who killed it, was it the Sui army?

A commander rushed into the tent and shouted profusely, "Khan, go!" The Chee cavalry came, and there were tens of thousands of them. ”

"Ahh

Yi lost the bowl was stunned, he suddenly paused and cried loudly: "Xue Yantuo is finished, I made a big mistake, I shouldn't go to revenge, I shouldn't!" ”

His thousands of guards had already rushed up to meet the Che cavalry, and a dozen shì guards ran out with him on their feet, when suddenly a black cloud shrouded his royal tent, the wind whistling in his ears, and the thunderous sound of horses' hooves broke his heart, and tens of thousands of cavalry swept past his royal tent.

The flagpole was split, the golden wolf's head banner was taken away, Yi lost the bowl and collapsed on the snow, and as soon as he looked up, a majestic man appeared in front of him, holding a spear in his hand and looking cold.

'Chere! , He recognized the big man in front of him, Qi Lie smiled cruelly, swung his spear and stabbed it, Yi lost the bowl and screamed, and the spear pierced his xiōng chamber mercilessly.

Qilie cut off his head, held it high, and shouted: "The head of the Khan of Xue Yantuo is in my hands!" ”

The Che soldiers cheered, and they split up and began to plunder the tribe, which was no longer able to resist in the slightest.

An attack and defense battle that changed the pattern of the grassland ended with the defeat of Xue Yantuo's army, in which Xue Yantuo's army lost more than 60,000 people, nearly 9,000 people were burned to death, and even the main general Shalu Hunt died tragically in the fire.

The Sui army also paid a heavy price, with more than half of the 8,000 Sui troops defending the city suffering casualties, and a temporary army of more than 10,000 city builders also suffered nearly 6,000 casualties.

However, the Sui army won a brilliant victory in the siege of Dali City, which made Yang Yuanqing, the young defender of Dali City, famous all over the world.

Compared with the price paid by Xue Yantuo, the casualties of the Sui army were still insignificant, half of Xue Yantuo's tribe was wiped out, and even the Khan Yi lost the bowl and died under the sword of the Qi people.

More than 100,000 people from the Xue Yantuo tribe east of the Yīn Mountains were forced to move eastward under the leadership of Yi Nan, the son of Yi Lost Bowl, and surrendered to the Eastern Turkic Qimin Khan, until ten years later, they moved back to their hometown north of Jinshan, but the former powerful Xue Yantuo tribe no longer existed.

In this battle, with the help of the Sui army, Qi defeated his old enemy and became the leader of the Tiele tribes in the Western Regions, confronting the Western Turks and Tuyuhun.

Out of a sense of affection for the Sui army, and also in order to continue to get the support of the Great Sui, the Qi Khan, accompanied by Pei Ju, personally entered Beijing to express his submission to the Sui Dynasty and was willing to accept the canonization of the Sui Dynasty.

In order to commend the outstanding performance of Yang Yuanqing, the defender of Dali City, in the battle of Dali City, as well as the merits of the liaison deed, in April of the first year of the Great Cause, the governor of Fengzhou, Yu Juluo, was promoted to the Ministry of Engineering, and Yang Guang then appointed Yang Yuanqing as the governor of Fengzhou and the history of Fengzhou.